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armchairlawyer wrote: Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:58 am John Campbell's video from yesterday on the AZ risks.
It's 30 minutes long, as is usual for the doc, but I hardly noticed. His presentations are so well done.

There's a very interesting observation at the end about vaccine injections hitting a vein instead of the deltoid muscle. Dr. Campbell noted that the Danes have posited a theory that some injections are placing the vaccine in the blood, which could lead to blood cells developing the antibodies and possibly causing the clots. They have issued an operational change.

Well, watch to the end about how clinicians should check (it should be SOP) if they hit a vein by drawing up on the syringe to check for any blood flow. If they do, the needle should be repositioned nearby to hit a muscle. The syringe blood check is called aspiration.
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Funny enough I just got called by my GP for my second jab, I had booked one online for next week but it was a bus ride away, the only option online. She got me an appointment round the corner for Monday so all is good
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This is a decent article about the AZ vaccine and put some of these blot clot cases into perspective. It is written by a doctor and reviewed by another one.

It's quite a long article but is well written and informative. Here's a taste.

Authored by Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE · Reviewed by Dr Colin Tidy

First, let's be clear. Absolutely no corners were cut in assessing safety of the COVID-19 vaccines, and the trials of the various vaccines all involved 15,000-40,000 people. This is the standard number of people in all vaccine trials. The reason we're seeing reports now is because of the vast numbers involved - more than 381 million doses of vaccine given to date across 126 countries.

Medicines are only licensed once the evidence shows their benefits outweigh the risks associated with them. If the side effects of a cancer drug kill 1 in 1,000 people who take it but the drug saves the life of 1 in 5, there's a net benefit despite the high price. But for a drug to treat an ingrowing toenail, a death rate of even 1 in 100,000 would be completely unacceptable.

All medicines and vaccines can cause very rare side effects. If, for instance, a side effect occurred in every 100,000 people having a medicine, a trial of even 40,000 people might not pick it up. It's not feasible to do trials on millions of people - it would take decades to do this research and medicines would never be developed.

However, assessing safety of medicines by no means stops once they've been licensed. At this stage, once approved, they may be given to millions of people. Every country has a post-marketing safety reporting scheme to look for very rare side effects. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in the UK has run a Yellow Card reporting system for many years, which is routinely used by doctors to report events that might be related to a medicine or vaccine. Other countries have similar schemes.

Vaccine side effects - what do we know so far?
All COVID-19 vaccines, including the AZ vaccines, are being followed up closely. Overall in the UK, out of 11 million doses of AZ vaccine given, there have been about 54,000 reports of side effects (almost all of which were minor side effects such as a sore arm, short-lived fever or swollen glands) through the Yellow Card reporting system. Over 10 million doses of Pfizer vaccine have also been delivered across the UK - there have been about 33,000 reports of side effects, also mostly minor.

Overall, there have been 37 cases of potentially serious clots reported across the UK and Europe, out of about 17 million doses of AZ vaccine delivered. The Norwegian Medicines Agency notes that in the case of blood clots or brain bleeds, the patients had in common low levels of platelets, putting them at risk of bleeding.

In relation to bleeding, the UK reporting system has received 35 cases where people developed low platelets, in the period following vaccination with AZ vaccine. This is out of 11 million AZ vaccines delivered in the UK. The equivalent figure for the Pfizer vaccine is similar at 22 reports.


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not good news when Thailand and Cambodia use the Chinese vaccine;
One cant help but wonder will this vaccine be valid for travel in the future if a vaccine is required to do so?
BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.

Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu.

Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses in other countries while also trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines.

The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil. By comparison, the vaccine made by Pfizer has been found to be 97% effective.
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Someone is going to disappear soon like the guy who spilled the beans about the virus.
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atst wrote: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:05 pm Someone is going to disappear soon like the guy who spilled the beans about the virus.
Dr. Li Wenliang is still revered by the people. He was only 34 when he died. It sure looks suspicious from my chair. His family still won't talk about him. Everyone knows to STFU. But some left flowers in his memory behind Wuhan Central Hospital, over a year after his death.
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phuketrichard wrote: Sun Apr 11, 2021 2:00 pm not good news when Thailand and Cambodia use the Chinese vaccine;
One cant help but wonder will this vaccine be valid for travel in the future if a vaccine is required to do so?
BEIJING (AP) — In a rare admission of the weakness of Chinese coronavirus vaccines, the country’s top disease control official says their effectiveness is low and the government is considering mixing them to give them a boost.

Chinese vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” said the director of the China Centers for Disease Control, Gao Fu, at a conference Saturday in the southwestern city of Chengdu.

Beijing has distributed hundreds of millions of doses in other countries while also trying to promote doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines.

The effectiveness rate of a coronavirus vaccine from Sinovac, a Chinese developer, at preventing symptomatic infections has been found to be as low as 50.4% by researchers in Brazil. By comparison, the vaccine made by Pfizer has been found to be 97% effective.
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Funny or not funny! but when talking about this with my girl shes whispering like its a secret and nobody should hear her talking shes scared. This is world wide news now , will it make the Cambodia new? and HE will be rightly pissed off with his friends when his children find out.
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Didn’t they have to buy these from China?
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Apollo91881 wrote: Sun Apr 11, 2021 6:41 pm Didn’t they have to buy these from China?
Camboda was given a free batch firstly. Now they have purchased more of the same vaccines to a tune of $1.5 million.
All, that said, from the outset the vaccine is not approved by the WHO.
I read somewhere that China can't test the vaccine at home because there is little sign, or too few people with the Covid19 virus.
The vaccine was given the status of emergency use by Cambodia's authorities. Now with the rise of infection in Cambodia's the status is now of vacation being mandatory.
China have once again shown they don't have to follow any guidance of combined world authorities, they have a country or more testing their product, possibly overriding any legal formalities, and for one poor nation, being a developing country, Camboda are paying for the none approved vaccines with hope that it will give an overall prevention for it's people.
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Worth a re read everyone.

SHAUN TURTON, Contributing Writer
December 15, 2020 18:46 JST
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia will acquire 1 million doses for its first batch of COVID-19 vaccinations -- an effort partly funded by the country's rich elite -- but is not opting for China's Sinovac shots at this stage.

Cambodian Prime Minister HE said Tuesday that the vaccine stocks had been ordered via the United Nations-backed COVAX facility, which subsidizes vaccines for 92 lower income countries.

The program -- run by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance -- provides support for poor countries to acquire vaccines for 20% of their populations, though beneficiary states may be required to share costs of up to $2 per dose. It will provide access to treatments approved by the World Health Organization, which is yet to endorse any vaccine candidates.

HE said the country would not accept vaccines uncertified by the global health body.

"Cambodia is not a dustbin... and not a place for a vaccine trial," he said.

That position appears to rule out any early deal to secure the Sinovac vaccine from China, which has pledged to support vaccine efforts in Cambodia, its closest ally in the region.

In August, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told Mekong countries they would be given priority once the China-developed vaccine is ready. This was echoed by Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a visit to Cambodia in October.

The Khmer Times reported on Monday that China's ambassador in Cambodia was in contact with the government about the potential of deploying the China-made vaccine, citing a social media post from the diplomat.

Overall, HE said his government aimed to acquire 26 million doses to inoculate 13 million of Cambodia's 16 million citizens "for free."

World Health Organization country representative Li Ailan told local media she hoped a vaccine would be available in Cambodia early in 2021 or by the middle of the year.


People wait to get a coronavirus test at the National Stadium in Phnom Penh on Dec. 8. © AP
HE said the government would allocate $100 million to $200 million to pay for the vaccine. The government has also received more than $48 million in donations from some 38,000 people.

The list of major donors reads like a "who's who" of Cambodia's powerful business figures, in what analysts say is an illustrative example of the patronage networks that underpin wealth and power in the country.

Among the biggest pledges, the Malaysian billionaire boss of Cambodia's biggest casino, NagaWorld, donated $5 million. Several mega-rich local tycoons, known as "oknha," also gave multimillion dollar amounts.

Such contributions, which extend down to smaller pledges from local level officials, are a familiar staple of the Cambodian patronage system -- networks of financial and familial ties that bind together the country's ruling class.

It sees elites curry favor by funneling cash into humanitarian organizations linked to the prime minister and his ruling Cambodian People's Party, such as the Cambodian Red Cross which is run by HE's wife.

The CPP then distributes aid and funds projects presented as gifts from the party.

"These kinds of donations support efforts to politicize service delivery and the government's approach to social protections," said Neil Loughlin, a researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

"In return, these business actors have been provided wealth-generating opportunities through state contracts and licenses to operate lucrative businesses, some of which have been highly controversial."

In his speech on Tuesday, which lasted almost four hours and saw him cancel high school exams because of the coronavirus pandemic, HE lashed out at criticism of such fundraising, calling it an "insult" to all Cambodians.

"Do not underestimate the generosity of Cambodian people regarding the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. Their contributions are purely voluntary," he said.

However, Sophal Ear, associate professor of diplomacy and world affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles, called the practice "feudal."

"Where did the Oknhas get their money? From who else, but the people, through shady monopoly deals and concessions that have jacked-up the price of everything in Cambodia," he said.

"In the end, it takes from the poor and gives it to the rich and then the rich give back a few millions which for them is just pennies on the dollar for what they truly took from the Cambodian people."

Cambodia's government expenditure on health care is among the lowest in the region, while its citizens face high out-of-pocket health expenses, according to the World Bank.

Still, Cambodia remains in an enviable position. It has recorded just 362 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and zero deaths.

Of these, 41 are connected to the country's first locally-transmitted cluster, which emerged late last month after spreading via the family of the director of prisons.

In his speech, HE said the outbreak was under control, but not over.

Michael Kinzer, director of the Cambodia global health security program at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, said contract tracers were "getting a handle" on the situation.

"The signs lately are headed in the right direction," he told Nikkei Asia. "We are not seeing new cases floating around in the community that are unlinked to any other cases, which is encouraging."

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Overall, HE said his government aimed to acquire 26 million doses to inoculate 13 million of Cambodia's 16 million citizens "for free."
HE said the government would allocate $100 million to $200 million to pay for the vaccine. The government has also received more than $48 million in donations from some 38,000 people.
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